Season 2020/2021 Official On-Line Match Programme Pitching In N P L Premier Division. Tuesday 29th September 2020 7.45 k.o. WARRINGTON TOWN v ATHERTON COLLIERIES Welcome to Cantilever Park THE TEAMS Warrington Town V Atherton Collieries (yellow with blue trim/blue/yellow) (green/white/green) Charles Albinson 1 Danny Taberner James Baillie 2 Clive Smith Michael Rose 3 Gareth Peet Charlie Munro 4 Ellis Roberts Mark Roberts © 5 Danny Lafferty © Matt Regan 6 Rick Smith Luke Duffy 7 Lewis Doyle Scott Brown 8 Vinny Bailey Josh Amis 9 Jordan Darr Bohan Dixon 10 Kyle Sambor Jack Dunn 11 Eliot Rokka Craig Carney 12 Elliot Wynne Matthew Taylor 14 Danny Lambert Jack Mackreth 15 Marcus Cussani Callum Grogan 16 Jack Banister Iyrwah Gooden 17 Ben Conway Paul Carden Manager Brad Cooke Referee Chris Porter Assistant Darren Whitfield Assistant Chris Mooney Pitching In Northern Premier League Premier Division Tuesday 29th September 2020, kick off 7-45 p.m. S. W. A. T. O. T. L. Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Cantilever Park for this Pitching In Northern Premier League Premier Division fixture. May I take this opportunity to offer a warm welcome to all players, officials and supporters of Atherton Collieries Football Club to Warrington? I trust you all have an enjoyable stay and a safe journey home after the match. Colls come to Warrington for the Today’s games – Premier Division third of a quartet of consecutive Ashton United v South Shields home matches played since we Gainsborough Trinity v Whitby Town opened our new season. Colls Grantham Town v Stafford Rangers and Town crossed paths for the Hyde United v FC Utd. of Man’ Lancaster City v Morpeth Town first time in many seasons last Matlock Town v Basford United term and provided us with two Mickleover v Witton Albion highly entertaining games. We Nantwich Town v Buxton Stalybridge Celtic v Scarborough A collected four points from those Warrington T v Atherton Collieries games which are dealt with in greater detail later in the programme. Colls lost their opening match at home to Scarborough and then had a walk over in the FA Cup after Bamber Bridge had to withdraw from the competition. On Saturday they gained a great three points away to Grantham so they will be full of confidence after that result. Of course we have started the season rather well too of course so should also be confident going into this evenings match, and if you wondered what the editorial title was all about: well? “Said We Are Top of The League”. OK I know it is only after two games so say it quietly, but it is still a nice feeling to be there, although of course I am fully aware that we can’t be too cocky about anything. I know we are only just starting, and this is after all just a bit of fun being enjoyed while we can. We will be focussed on this evenings game and we will be going out for another three points, but we will be aware of the danger our opposition puts in our way. I can see from their player roster that they have a few ex Town players in their ranks, so welcome back Danny, Jack and Marcus. I hope you have a safe time here but forgive me if I don’t wish you leave quite so happy. Saturday saw us score an impressive 3-0 home win over Gainsborough Trinity who are always a potential threat as a team likely to challenge at the top of the table. Whilst the score line maybe flatters us a shade it is still a great result and third consecutive clean sheet is some achievement given the calibre of opposition was have come across thus far. More of the same there please guys. This game saw us welcome Matt Taylor who has joined us from Harrogate Town. We hope Matt enjoys his time at Warrington and can be part of a successful side. As I mentioned Town have started with two wins from our opening two games and somewhat surprisingly are the only side with such a record, although Ashton United and Bamber Bridge also boast a 100% record after just the single game. Would you believe it but the last time we started with two wins was I 2001/2002 season. We won the first three that season. I would love it if we could go on and put in a really strong start to the season this time around. This coming Saturday we now have a rearranged fixture due to a clash with the FA Cup. Whitby Town will be visiting us, kick off 3.00 p.m. We also have the trip to Morpeth Town planned too. A Tuesday nighter on 13th October. A late return beckons. Don’t forget to check the new and improved Warrington Town website for all the latest news and results involving everything to do with Warrington Town. 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Comp No. 06412371 Ltd by shares. No significant interest TOWN v ATHERTON COLLIERIES - THE HISTORY OF THE CLASH THE FULL RECORD (League games only - based on three points for a win) HOME AWAY P W D L F A W D L F A Pts GD 20 7 1 2 27 10 3 3 4 17 17 34 +17 CUP MATCHES - THREE 1985/1986 FA Vase 1sr Round Warrington Town 2 Atherton Collieries 0 1998/1999 North West Counties Floodlit Trophy First Round First Leg Warrington Town 1 Atherton Collieries 1 1998/1999 North West Counties Floodlit Trophy Second Round First Leg Atherton Collieries 4 Warrington Town 2 ------------------------------------------------------------ The first ever meeting took place following the formation of a second division of the Cheshire County League. Town and Colls were members of that for the four years of its existence prior to the formation of the North West Counties League. The first meeting took place here in Warrington on 10th February 1979. We won 2-0. Colls won the return the following month 2-1. The remaining CCL Division Two results were (Town home game first) 0-3, 2-1 (79/80), 2-1, 3-4 (80/81) & 4-0, 1-2 (81/82). Both Town and Colls were founder members of the North West Counties League in the 82/3 season and we met again with both placed in Division Three. We won 5-1 at home and drew 1-1 in Atherton but they would be our last league meetings for some seasons. The next meeting was in the FA Vase with Town winning a first round tie 2-0 and our first in that seasons competition as we headed towards the semi-finals. Following our relegation from the NPL we met again in season 1997/98. WE only spent one season in Division One being demoted on ground grading. We lost at home 3-4 and drew 1-1 away. 1998/99 saw the next meetings and an epic but for an unusual reason. On 3rd October 1998 we drew 1-1 at home in the North West Counties Floodlit Trophy First Round First Leg. The second leg did not take place until 2nd February the following year, a ridiculous eleven postponed matches later. It remains our record for postponed games in a season. Colls won 4-2 to progress. I say progress. The competition was abandoned that season and discontinued thereafter. The next round of league meetings culminated in our promotion as champions of NW Counties Division Two. We met again for the first of three consecutive league seasons starting on 15th September 2001. We won 3-0 at home with goal from Any Moore (2) and Chris Moores. They away game was in late April and Colls won 2-0. In 2002/03 it was 4-0 and 0-0 and the following season 3-0 & 4-2, both Town wins. The last of those was on 15th November 2003. Some sixteen seasons would pass before we played again with the score line repeated as Town won 4-2 in Atherton on 20th August 2019. It was the second game of the season. Town registered four different scorers. Louis Barnes, Jack Mackreth, Tony Gray and Matty Chadwick. We had led 4-0 when Colls mounted a fight back but the gap was too wide to reach. The return was on the first Saturday of 2020. Town and Coll’s were in indifferent form but we made it a familiar tale. We took the lead through Ben Garrity but for the fifth time in six games failed to hold onto it and drew, the score ending 1-1.